The Layoff Club

Laid off from Autodesk.

Autodesk cut 9% in February 2025, then another round in early 2026, roughly 2,350 roles across the two, with its California filings marking each. Design software's AI pivot keeps claiming the org chart.

At a glance

What's been reported about Autodesk severance packages

  • About 1,350 roles, 9% · February 2025 round
  • About 1,000 roles · Early 2026 round, reported
  • 289, then 104 · California filings in our tracker
  • Not published · Individual severance terms

Recent Autodesk layoffs

The second round lands

Autodesk followed its February 2025 cut of about 1,350 roles, 9% of the company, with a further reduction in early 2026 reported around 1,000 roles, bringing the two-round total near 2,350. California filings of 289 and 104 roles mark the US edges of both.

Previous rounds

Autodesk layoff history

Autodesk is reshaping around AI-assisted design while its subscription base funds the transition, and the workforce has paid for it twice, 9% in February 2025 and a second round inside a year. The California filings put street-level numbers on the Bay Area share of each.

The functions affected track the strategy, go-to-market and traditional product roles absorbed the stated focus of the 2025 round, while the AI and platform sides kept hiring, the internal reallocation that defines this cycle's cuts across software.

If you're affected at Autodesk, design-software expertise has a distinct market, the CAD, BIM, and manufacturing-software ecosystem hires from exactly this background, and customer-side roles at engineering and construction firms increasingly want the same skills. Terms arrive individually against an unpublished formula, California's rules cover the filed sites, and the review windows apply.

Previous Autodesk layoff rounds

How Autodesk has compared

Autodesk's two rounds bracket the 2026 pattern, an AI-justified restructuring at a healthy company, repeated. For workers the repetition is the signal, when the first round's rationale still applies a year later, planning for the possibility of a second is realism, not pessimism.

Autodesk layoff and severance questions

What severance does Autodesk pay in layoffs?

Autodesk hasn't published severance terms for either round. Packages arrive as individual agreements, and yours is the only version that counts.

Why did Autodesk cut twice in a year?

Both rounds were framed around reallocating toward AI and platform priorities. The 2025 round took about 1,350 roles and the early-2026 round roughly 1,000 more per reporting. When a rationale persists, so can the cutting, which is worth weighing in any decision to stay.

Where does Autodesk experience transfer?

Across the design-software ecosystem, competitors, the BIM and construction-tech sector, manufacturing software, and increasingly the customer side, where engineering and construction firms build internal digital teams from exactly this talent pool.

Where do I file for unemployment after a Autodesk layoff?

In the state where you worked, not where the company is headquartered. Autodesk's biggest U.S. hubs are California, Oregon, Colorado. Severance usually doesn't block you from filing, and benefits run from your filing date, so file the same week.

Should I sign the severance agreement right away?

First pin down how much review time you actually have. If you're 40 or older, federal law gives you 21 days to consider an agreement that waives age claims, 45 in a group layoff, and a waiver signed under a shorter deadline can be invalid. If you're under 40, no federal window applies and the deadline in your packet may be real, so confirm it in writing and ask for more time if you need it. Use whatever window you have to read the release terms, especially non-disparagement and no-lawsuit clauses, and don't stall past a real deadline, because offers can be withdrawn.

Can I collect unemployment if I got severance from Autodesk?

Usually yes, though some states delay benefits until severance pay periods end, and lump sums are treated differently than salary continuation. Check your state's rules on our state benefit pages, and file immediately either way so your claim date is locked in.

What to do after being laid off from Autodesk

  1. File for unemployment in the state where you worked. Benefits run from your filing date, and severance usually doesn't block you. Autodesk's biggest hubs: California, Oregon, Colorado. Somewhere else? Every state is here.
  2. Find out in writing how long you have to review the severance agreement. At 40 or older, federal law guarantees 21 days, 45 in group layoffs. Under 40, the packet's deadline may be real, so ask for time rather than assume. Read our severance breakdown first. The clauses matter more than the number.
  3. Mind the health insurance window. Losing coverage opens a 60-day special enrollment period, and an ACA plan usually beats unsubsidized COBRA. Compare your options before the employer coverage lapses.
  4. Get your real runway number. Severance plus savings divided by reality. The calculator takes five minutes.
  5. Know which clocks are already running. Severance review windows, COBRA election, visa grace periods, and 401(k) rollovers all run on federal deadlines that started at termination. All five deadlines are here.